Conveyer



D. IONS, JR.

CONVEYER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I6, 1919.

Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DETLEF JONS, JR OF SPANGLE, WASHINGTON.

CONVEYER.

Application filed. June 16, 1919. Serial No. 304,563.

. To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DETLEF Jons, Jr., a citizen of .the United States, residing at Spangle, in the county ofSpokane and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsinConveyers, of which the following is a specification.

. The present invention relates to improvements in material handling machines designed particularly for use in connection with the grain elevator of a grain separator or threshing machine for distributingand storing-the grain received from. such elevator. In thecus'tomjary way of handling the grain after being threshed and separated it is lifted v by'an elevator forming part of i the appliance',:and then. poured by gravity from the delivery spout at thetop of the elevator,v into sacks, grain-wagonswor tanks. Under existing conditions the cost of delivering the grain-from 'the elevator to the sacks or wagons, for further transportation to storage places, is prohibitive, and the practice now in vogue is to erect a grain tank or bin in the field on a convenient or desirable point, and the threshed or separated grain is delivered directly from the threshing machine into the tank. Ordinarily the grain is delivered at one side of the tank, usually cylindrical, and a man shovels the grain from the opening as it is delivered to him. The primary object of the present invention is to provide mechanical means whereby the grain is delivered and dis tributed in the tank directly from the threshing machine elevator, thus saving time, labor and reducing the expense of handling the material. To this end the invention comprises a delivery device revoluble about the end of the elevator within a certain radius for properly distributing the grain and including an endless chain conveyer and spout, and in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts of these devices as will be hereinafter pointed out and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings one complete example of the physical embodiment of the invention is illustrated, the parts being combined and arranged according to the best mode so far devised for the practical application of the principles ofthe invention.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the appa- I ratus connected with the upper end of the grain elevator and operated from driven parts therein.

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the upper portion of the elevator of the threshin machine, showing the outlet end of the defivery spout conveyer and the mechanism for taking power from the elevator to the conveyer.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view showing the connection between the conveyer spout and the elevator spout, parts being broken away for purpose of illustration.

Flg. 4 is a perspective view of one of the attaching rings or bands for supporting the operating parts from the elevator.

The delivery appliance as a whole may be attached to existing threshing machines as an added part, or may be built as a part of the manufactured implement, but in either event the two legs 1 and 2 of the elevator. of the threshing machine and thehead 3 and shaft 4 journaled therein are utilized for the purpose of equipment, in connection with the driving sprocket wheel 5 on' this driven shaft 4 which is actuated by the grain elevating device, usually an endless chain type, within the two legs of the elevator.

The actuating mechanism for the conveyer is supported on the elevator legs or tubular columns, through the instrumentality of a pair of rings or bands 6 and 7 each of which is split or divided and fashioned with a pair of lugs 7' perforated for the clamp bolt 7, by means of which the respective rings or bands are rigidly and firmly secured in position on the pipe or tube of the elevator, at the desired points. The supporting bands are each formed with a bushing or sleeve 8 and a set bolt 9, the

former to receive the frame bars 10 and the latter to secure them in adjusted position in these bushings. The bars 10 are members of the supporting frame or bracket for the actuating mechanism including the large sprocket wheel 11 on the shaft 12 journaled in the frame, the wheel and shaft being revolved from the drivin sprocket 5 by the sprocket chain 12. The shaft 12 also has a bevel pinion 13which meshes with the complementary bevel wheel 14 on the flexible sectional telescopic shaft 15 journaled in the frame 10 and actuating the conveyer shaft 16 of the conveyer 17 provided with the blades 18. The conveyer is operable in the spout 19 which is of tubular form and cylindrical, open at its free end, and slotted as required to accommodate the endless conveyer 17 and its blades 18, so that the grain may be elevated, and delivered to the nozzle or delivery end 18' of the elevator, and then be supplied to the enlarged receiving end 19 of the conveyer spout from where it IS caught by the successive blades 18 in the endless conveyer and carried by the blades of the lower flight through the tubular spout and passed out through the open free end of the spout. As shown the blades are in the shape of circular disks and the endless conveyer is bodily supported in the spout or tube, thus preserving the operative position or relation of the conveyer and spout even though the position of the spout be changed with relation to the elevator.

The spout and conveyer may be adjusted both vertically and horizontally with relation to the elevator through the utilization of the gimbal joint 20 and the rotary sleeve 22, the latter revoluble about the open end of the nozzle '18 of the elevator and the former located between the receiving chamber 19 of the spout and the revoluble sleeve on the nozzle 18', and the flexible shaft 15 permits and compensates for the lack of close adjustment, which would otherwise be required. In use the conveyer spout may be lowered to the position in dotted lines Fig.

v3, declining from the pivoted end, and its free end may rest upon the top of an open tank or grain receptacle, the extremity of the spout being approximately over the center of the receptacle in order that the moving blades of the conveyer may deposit the grain in the center of the receiver for proper distribution.

It will readily'be a parent that the appliance is capable of wi e range of adjustment, thus adaptingit for practically all conditions encountered in the different makes of elevators now in use, and rendering it a standard device for facile use on diflerent types of elevators, whether in connection with a threshing machine or not, using the elevator for delivery to the conveyer.

What is claimed is- The combination with an elevator and its delivery head and nozzle, of a horizontally revoluble sleeve on the nozzle, a vertically adjustable conveyer spout having a gimbal joint on the sleeve, an endless chain conveyer' with blades traveling in the spout and adapted to receive material from the nozzle, a frame attached to the elevator leg and actuating mechanism supported in the frame, and a sectional telescopic shaft connecting said actuatingmechanism with the endless conveyer. V a

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

DETLEF JONS, JR. 

